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28-10-2010

Daniel Johns features with some of Australasia's most respected names in music in a new international coffee-table book.

New York photographer Andrew Zuckerman's latest project, a book of portraits titled Music, includes Daniel, Jimmy Barnes, Bic Runga, Dave Dobbyn and Neil Finn among 52 portraits of some of the world's top musicians.

Zuckerman flew out to Australia and New Zealand to shoot sessions with local artists, who feature alongside big name internationals including Ozzy Osbourne, Iggy Pop, Eve, Chrissie Hynde and Lenny Kravitz.

The book follows Zuckerman's 2008 tome, Wisdom, which, like Music, was published with the help of South African archbishop Desmond Tutu to bring messages of inspiration from well-known figures, to the world.

As well as displaying raw and emotive portraits, Zuckerman includes individual stories in the artists' own words about their lives and careers.

"Looking at the topography of someone's face, so much information is in there." Zuckerman tells Insider. "You can glean so much from their essential character."

Silverchair's Daniel Johns says: "Music is just organised noise. Its emotional resonance comes out of passion." Although Zuckerman says getting all the artists involved was hard work, he hopes to bring out a follow up edition.

"It's hard to convince people who are generally used to a very focused reason for doing press to just get out there and do someone else's essentially art project." he says.

31-05-2010

Due to the rapidly increasing levels of SPAM and lack of modern features on the old forum we were forced to re-evaluate Silverchair's official forum. The old forum used a version that was no longer supported so new SPAM control was going to be increasingly difficult and new features were not possible.

Accordingly we took the opportunity to build a brand new Silverchair forum with all the latest tools, features and services. You now have a new design, many new functions not available in the past along with the latest SPAM resistance techniques.

17-05-2010

12-05-2010

A brand new official Silverchair application for iPhone and iPod Touch has just been released. This is the 'lite' app version which will keep you up-to-date with all things happening with the band between now and the new album. Stayed tuned on the app front, as we'll be releasing an 'advanced' version in the future.

You can download your FREE APP NOW and see more exclusive Groovin The Moo backstage pics! And don’t forget to let all your friends know about it too.

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02-05-2010

Silverchair broke their live show hiatus last night with a 13 song, hour and a half, performance at Bendigo's Groovin' the Moo. We have exclusive photos straight from the show in chairpage's Live Photos Gallery. (click link, Live Photos, 2010, May)

An extensive show review will be posted shortly that'll include the full setlist, further photos and more.